black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Ben Stein

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEIN

Inquiry Lines Scientist
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
BEN STEIN

Exception People Rich
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEIN

Car Moving Sleep
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN

Action Just One Yourself
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
BEN STEIN

Ideas Race Racism
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
BEN STEIN

Doubt Ideas Rumor
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN

Done Maps Planning
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
BEN STEIN

Atheist Country Ideas
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
BEN STEIN

Congress Court Sparks
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEIN

Goal Pyramids Steps
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
BEN STEIN

Egg Insane Quantity Shopping
It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
BEN STEIN

Games Real Sitting Stretch
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
BEN STEIN

Gratitude Laughter relief
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
BEN STEIN

Fields Men Succeed
It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
BEN STEIN

Country Hard Work People

You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Stein Quotes